Tape drive

[Hemmetter]

Hi Khalid,

some Questions?

What kind of tape do you have?
How is it attached? SCSI, Fibre or USB?
Did you reboot since it was attached?
Is it power on and cable checked?

rgds
HGH

[Khalid Shakoor]

Kind of tape is DDS and Connected by SCSI cable and System Reboot 2 to 3 time,Tape power is ON

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

What about choosing the available SCSI ID and termination?

[Hemmetter]

Hi Khalid,

by the way, a helpful tool is lsscsi

$ lsscsi
[0:0:8:0] process SDR GEM318P 1 -
[0:2:0:0] disk MegaRAID LD 0 RAID1 12G 515H /dev/sda
[0:2:1:0] disk MegaRAID LD 1 RAID1 22G 515H /dev/sdb
[0:2:2:0] disk MegaRAID LD 2 RAID5 858G 515H /dev/sdc
[1:0:0:0] tape IBM ULTRIUM-TD2 4AP0 /dev/st0


http://sg.torque.net/scsi/lsscsi.html


greets
HGH

[Stuart Browne]

Or you can just 'cat /proc/scsi' and look for a 'SEQUENTIAL ACCESS' device.

[Jared Middleton]

I used to have to add this to /etc/rc.d/rc.local... maybe it will help:

# In order for the SCSI tape drive to work with the Compaq SMART
# Array Controller, the Compaq cciss driver must dynamically engage
# the SCSI core via the /proc filesystem after initialization.
# For more information see:
# /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.18/cciss.txt

for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]*; do
echo "engage scsi" > $x
done

-Jared

[Khalid Shakoor]

Dear All
Thank you
Issue resolved by switch the SCSI Switch to "1".